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Stephen Holbrook and Austin Pulsipher (both HBS '19) had been leading Nutrishare since acquiring the company six months earlier in mid-2021.... View Details

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31 Jan 2013
News

Ex-Pimco CEO is an engine for charity

Keywords: Personal Services; Personal Services

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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

already public acquirer - remains a critical step in corporate transformation by private equity investors and innovation by venture capitalists. Because public capital markets play such a key role in the global economy, government regulators and policy makers... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

The Changing Nature of Research

centers to lower the cost of health care delivery. The ability of faculty members to study business issues that are relevant and that resonate with their intellectual passions, unencumbered by the need to... View Details

19 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

which was historically plagued by frictions, is becoming potentially more accurate, efficient, and cost effective. For small-business lending, technology is changing the game, providing access to capital for more small businesses that... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

15 May 2023
News

From Scientist to Business Leader

cohort of 15 students to enter the joint MS/MBA program, Kim interned for Boston Consulting Group, working with health care clients. She also explored the current landscape of hearing loss therapeutics—“something I'm so passionate about... View Details

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Patients - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Insist providers provide their results with patients like you. Choose cost-effective health plan structures involving deductibles together with HSAs to save for future health care needs Seek a long-term... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

today goes to telecom, high tech, or software,” said Mahesh, founder and CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices in Chennai. Mahesh trained at Stanford as an engineer and worked for McKinsey and Toyota before attending HBS. He plans to apply engineering and View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Feb 1998
News

Stephen Covey's Successful Habits

survive. Another force is unsatisfactory personal relationships. I asked a CEO of a major multinational why he had his 35,000 employees trained in the 7 Habits. He said, "My wife had told me I didn't listen to our daughter." After he... View Details

08 Sep 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing

good place to start The Upside of Highlighting a Product's DownsidesResearchers discover what happens when companies embrace product transparency, accentuating the positive—and the negative. Deconstructing the Price TagExplaining what it View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

capital and an end to predatory lending practices? Organizations lament sky-rocketing health care costs, but why is there such a limited effort to organize preventative care? Cutting Medicare will not stop the epidemic of obesity. The... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

07 Sep 2021
News

One Degree of Difference

Courtesy Paris Wallace Courtesy Paris Wallace At 70 employees strong, the Boston-based digital company Ovia Health is on the smallish-but-mighty size compared to the rest of the local tech hub. Competing for talent is tough. While those... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Oct 2001
News

The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision

could be prescribed, assembled, and fitted in the field by trained microentrepreneurs rather than by optometrists or ophthalmologists. The next step was to form a "Low Cost Available Eyeglasses" (LCAE) team and enter the HBS Business Plan... View Details

Keywords: eyeglasses

01 Sep 2018
News

Case Study: A Good Fit

gym, for example—and sustaining it over time, says Sean Eldridge (MBA 2009). He and his cofounders at Gain Life, an early-stage startup based at the Harvard Launch Lab, have an app for that. By combining behavioral science and marketing best practices with the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

28 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

lawsuits against Blitz had followed. A former Blitz employee has testified that Blitz presented a revised gas can design to Walmart that would prevent the burn injuries by installing an "arrestor," a device that would prevent a flame from flowing into the... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail

27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

that there's actually a cost of privilege," Neeley says. "People often think that they need to cater only to those who they perceive are on the losing end of something that is spurred by an organizational change. This study shows that in... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

October 2004 (Revised February 2005)
Case

John Moran and the Orthopedics Industry

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

Reviews John Moran's 25-year career in the orthopedic industry and his current decision whether to start a hand and foot surgery company. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Health Industry

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Find at Harvard

04 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 4

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-005.pdf The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality (revised) Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2010
News

MBAs on a Mission

Houston emphasizes. “How often does anyone get a chance to do that?” — DB Creating a Global Blueprint for Change: John Kim’s work as director of operations research at the Clinton Health Access Initiative focuses on fixing bottlenecks in... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2025
News

Heartland

northeast of Denver. When it was introduced in 1983, DairyComp made it possible for workers to track and analyze the overall health and fertility of every cow, to ensure each animal was being cared for in a way that maximized milk... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

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